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Still active at 74, Von Frisch has now reported his latest discovery: subspecies of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) have a language, or dialect, all their own that cannot be understood by or taught to other subspecies. Explaining his findings before the Austrian Academy of Science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Honeyed Words | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...distinguished from the typical yellow jacket by having an extra black plate between the eye and the lower jaw, and by building football-shaped nests well above ground; a yellow jacket (V. pennsylvanica), which nests underground or in crevices in rocks or walls; and the domestic honeybee (Apis mellifera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bee-Sting Immunity | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...honey bee (Apis mellifera and kindred species) is not native to the U.S., but many fugitives from domestic hives have taken to the woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Like Honey? | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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